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My votes: Hardware Management Console

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Add HMC location field

HMC don't have location field.Please add a location field(s) to store information like "Server Room" or "Rack Nr"
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

lssvcevents command extention with events details

CLI command lssvcevents doesn't allow to view details related to serviceable event the same way as GUI interface (Select problem->View details). There is no information about SRC Extentions, failing partition id or failing partition name. Retri...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered

To be able to specify the destination vios in the commands rrstartlpar and migrlpar

To be able to specify the destination vios in the commands rrstartlpar and migrlpar, since, if in a same Power there are more than 1 pair of vios, these commands verify if the vlan's of the partition can be configured in all the vios servers and g...
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 4 Delivered

Customer request to change the order of the managed system in "vtmenu".

Customer has several HMCs which manage several power servers, they like to see all the order of server in HMC can stay with consistency in vtmenu,
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

Save View in HMC

It is not possible to save a specific partition view in HMC.
about 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 5 Delivered

HMC to store VIOS backupios backup

Add HMC capability to upload and store VIOS backupios backup file (nim_resources.tar) the VIOS can be restored from
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

HMC not showing phys MAC adresses of SR-IOV shared network cards

In the latest releases of HMC it is not possible to list/show the phys mac adresses of network cards that are SR-IOV capable and in shared mode.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

sortable columns in Power Enterprise Pool Management windows

When working in the Power Enterprise Pools Management window, it would be nice to be able to sort by columns the output in the Processor Resources and Memory Resources windows.
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Delivered
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Maintenance capabilities for vNIC Failover

In order to make preparations for maintenance activities (e.g. VIOS updates) more efficient in setups with vNIC failover, it would be helpful to have a new HMC capability that allows to switch all active backing devices from a selected VIOS to the...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

labels for fiber channel ports

Can you introduce labels for fiber channel adapters/ports in HMC as we have it already for SR-IOV NIC´s? This feature for SR-IOV NIC´s is really great and i like to have it also for fiber channel as we have to deal with different SAN fabrics in ou...
over 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 2 Delivered

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